red none of
the main positions of the Ottoman troops were carried or even reached,
and it became apparent that the task of reducing the Dardanelles was
not one likely to be solved by rush frontal attacks. Rather, as in
other fields of the world war, the problem became one of siege
tactics, and from the date of the end of this second battle of Krithia
the operations in Gallipoli resolved themselves into variations of the
methods that were being forced upon the troops of all the belligerent
countries in Europe.

For his grand attack upon Krithia and Achi Baba, Sir Ian Hamilton
brought down from Anzac Cove the Second Australian Infantry Brigade
and the New Zealand Brigade. With two brigades of the Royal Naval
Reserve he formed them into a reserve division. The Twenty-ninth
Division held the British line, and was ordered forward about 11 a. m.
of May 6, 1915, with orders to go as far as Krithia if possible, but
at all events to seize as much of the ground around that point as
possible. At the same time the French corps were to attempt to wrest
from the Turks the crest above the Kereves Dere.

The advance was extremely slow. At the end of two hours the
Twenty-ninth Division had progressed less than three hundred yards and
had not yet come into touch with any of the main Turkish positions.
Three hours more of desperate fighting showed many fluctuations but no
more progress. Finally they were ordered to intrench where they were
for the night.

The French had succeeded in reaching the crest aimed at, but found it
by no means a comfortable position. They could not go forward and they
dared not go back. Yet they were subject to a raking fire that cost
them hundreds of casualties. Time and time again the Senegalese troops
were sent against the Turkish trenches and machine gun positions, but
each time they were beaten back with cruel losses. To make matters
even worse, the French could not, in the heavy fire maintained by the
Turks, intrench until after nightfall, and they had to spend hours in
the exposed position.

[Illustration: Embarking the stores at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, two days
before the British and French forces evacuated their positions at this
part of the peninsula and removed the troops to Salonica.]

The following morning May 7, 1915, the allied warships opened a
furious bombardment of the ground around Krithia. Every few feet of
the difficult country was searched out by the destroying lyddite of
the Allies' sh